Word: merchantable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detur prizes have been presented to Harvard students since 1637, when Edward Hopkins, a London merchant who came to America, and who was several times Governor of the Connecticut Colony, made important educational be quests to New England in order "to give some encouragement in those foreign plantations, for the breeding up of hopeful youths, both at the grammar school and college, for the public service of the country in future times. The Detur prizes are among the oldest to be given at Harvard...
Undaunted, the feminists and their Communist leaders marched away to the house of a rich Persian merchant. His wife they suspected to be held imprisoned and frequently castigated because she had ventured to enter a bazaar veilless some months ago, had been seized by her husband's retainers, shut up in solitude. With the assistance of the Russian police, roused to investigate the Persian's house, a door was forced and the inner compound entered. At a stake set up in a pool of muddy offal was found, chained like a dog, the merchant's feminist wife...
Life came to Chiang Kai-shek 39 years ago in a tiny village near Ningpo in Chekiang Province. He ran away from being apprenticed to a merchant and embraced the career of arms, winning a scholarship at the Military Academy of Yuan Shih-kai, the Great Northerner, in far-Northern Chili. Later, he was sent by the Manchu Government to study at the Imperial Japanese Military College, Tokyo...
Jesse Isidor and Herbert Straus, potent brothers, part owners of R.H. Macy & Co. (Manhattan department store): "Last week we went back to the old homestead in Talbotton, Ga., where Grandfather Lazarus Straus, fresh from Bavaria, began to be a U.S. merchant in 1848. His shack is still standing, but the original store had burned down. In the public square, the citizens spread for us a barbecue. As we were munching sandwiches, a withered man came up, shook our hands, said: 'Isidor Straus [our father, one the three sons of Lazarus] was the best Latin student I ever...
...other choice open for the nine o'clock period is of interest more per se than from any possible practical point of view. Professor Usher will speak in Economics 10b on "Merchant Shipping of England and Holland in 1600" in Widener...